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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boar \Boar\ (b[=o]r), noun [OE. bar, bor, bore, AS. b[=a]r; akin to OHG. p[=e]r, MHG. b[=e]r, G. b["a]r, boar (but not b["a]r bear), and perh. Russ. borov' boar.] (Zo["o]l.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
boar
noun
1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States [syn: {wild boar}, {Sus scrofa}]
2: an uncastrated male hog
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "boar": barrow, billy, billy goat, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, chanticleer, cock, cockerel, dog, drake, entire, entire horse, gander, gilt, gobbler, hart, he-goat, hog, peacock, pig, piggy, piglet, pigling, porker, ram, razorback, rooster, shoat, sow, stag, stallion, steer, stot, stud, studhorse, suckling pig, swine, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, tusker, wether, wild boar
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Boar occurs only in Ps. 80:13. The same Hebrew word is elsewhere rendered "swine" (Lev. 11:7; Deut. 14:8; Prov. 11:22; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17). The Hebrews abhorred swine's flesh, and accordingly none of these animals were reared, except in the district beyond the Sea of Galilee. In the psalm quoted above the powers that destroyed the Jewish nation are compared to wild boars and wild beasts of the field.
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